The Zibaldone Project: the first complete edition in English of the notebooks of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).

Zibaldone Project：贾科莫·莱奥帕尔迪（Giacomo Leopardi，1798-1837 年）笔记本的第一本完整英文版。

• 批准号: AH/F017340/1
• 负责人: Michael Caesar
• 金额: $ 19.65万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF017340%2F1
• 关键词: Zibaldone; Project; first; complete; edition

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is Italy's greatest poet after Dante. Like Dante's, his poetry is underpinned by a complex and wide-ranging system of thought whose contours are clearly visible in his verse and in the prose works he published or prepared during his lifetime. But the full extent of Leopardi's philosophical reflections first became apparent with the publication in 1898 of the four-and-a-half thousand pages of his notebooks or Zibaldone. The Zibaldone was written between 1817 and 1832, with peaks of particularly intense composition in the early 1820s. It can best be described as a kind of philosophical diary. Virtually every page sees Leopardi wrestling with the phenomenology of a modern world which he perceives as utterly distinct from what has gone before and which he commits himself to understanding. The Zibaldone is not a simple collection of thoughts and quotations. The almost daily writings sustain a complex structure in which different threads overlap and interweave to answer fundamental questions concerning language, belief, happiness and perfectibility, the organization of human societies, history and culture; they anticipate many critics of modern Western culture, from Baudelaire to Nietzsche to Benjamin and beyond. Steeped in his encyclopedic reading, Leopardi makes the classical heritage, the Christian tradition and the rationalist philosophy of the Enlightenment measure up against each other and compete. Out of this confrontation emerges a wholly original view in ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics. The entries of the Zibaldone - which range in length from a few lines to many pages, sometimes true essays - deal in unfalteringly lucid prose with crucial aspects of the human sciences as they were emerging in the early nineteenth century. The whole work can be read as a kind of hypertext, any of whose observations can point in several directions at once and make links with others for which Leopardi himself supplied some partial indexes. The Zibaldone retains all its power and richness for readers of the twenty-first century; its ambition of scale and multifacetedness foreshadow and feed into our own present's rejection of grand narratives, the need to rethink fundamentals, and the cross-fertilization between disciplines.Our edition gives the complete text of the Zibaldone in English translation (with €122k already secured for the translation as such). It will include all significant variants, erasures and additions. All passages in languages other than Italian will be given in the original language and in English translation. The edition will include the following editorial apparatus: notes and commentary specifically written for the English-language edition, aimed at facilitating and contextualizing the reading of the text itself; analytical indexes which will provide a detailed map of the contents; Leopardi's own partial indexes and related matter; a listing of Leopardi's sources (including the specific editions used by him); an extensive Introduction written by the editors covering the major structural, thematic and critical issues raised by the Zibaldone in the context of Leopardi's work as a whole and in relation to his contemporaries and successors. The editorial work, over and above the translation per se, will adapt, extend and modify the existing scholarship, provide the necessary support for the English-speaking reader coming to the text for perhaps the first time, and place Leopardi's work in a wider European perspective which sometimes escapes purely Italian readings of the Zibaldone. In addition it will underline the modernity of Leopardi's work, both in the wholly original structure of the work and in its approach to the construction of a philosophical system which its author knows cannot be 'systematic'. The edition will be published in 2011 or 2012, Two pre-publication symposia will address specific research themes and papers will be published separately in the period 2009-11.

贾科莫·利奥帕迪(Giacomo Leopardi，1798-1837)是意大利继但丁之后最伟大的诗人。与但丁的诗歌一样，他的诗歌也有复杂而广泛的思想体系支撑，其轮廓在他的诗歌和他一生出版或准备的散文作品中清晰可见。但利奥帕尔迪的全部哲学思考在1898年出版了他长达四千五百页的笔记本或齐巴尔多时首次显现出来。齐巴隆写于1817年至1832年之间，在19世纪20年代初达到了特别强烈的成分。它可以被描述为一种哲学日记。几乎每一页都看到利奥帕迪在与现代世界的现象学搏斗，他认为现代世界与过去截然不同，他致力于理解。齐巴尔多并不是一个简单的思想和语录的集合。这些几乎每天都有的作品维持着一个复杂的结构，不同的线索重叠交织在一起，回答了关于语言、信仰、幸福和完美、人类社会的组织、历史和文化等基本问题；它们预计会有许多现代西方文化的批评者，从波德莱尔到尼采，再到本杰明和更远的地方。利奥帕迪沉浸在百科全书般的阅读中，使古典遗产、基督教传统和启蒙运动的理性主义哲学相互竞争。从这种对峙中产生了一种全新的伦理学、美学和形而上学的观点。齐巴尔多的条目-从几行到许多页，有时是真正的散文-以坚定不移的清晰散文处理了19世纪初出现的人类科学的关键方面。整部作品可以被解读为一种超文本，其中任何一种观察都可以同时指向几个方向，并与其他方向建立联系，利奥帕迪本人为此提供了一些部分索引。对于21世纪的读者来说，Zibaldo保留了它所有的力量和丰富性；它对规模和多面性的雄心预示并助长了我们现在对宏大叙事的拒绝，对基本面的重新思考，以及学科之间的交叉受精。我们的版本提供了Zibaldo的英文翻译全文(翻译时已经获得了122k欧元的保证)。它将包括所有重要的变体、删除和添加。除意大利语外，所有其他语言的文章将以原文和英文翻译。该版本将包括以下编辑机构：专门为英文版本编写的注释和评论，旨在促进文本本身的阅读并将其置于上下文中；分析性索引，将提供内容的详细地图；Leopardi自己的部分索引和相关事项；Leopardi的来源列表(包括他使用的特定版本)；编辑撰写的广泛介绍，涵盖Zibaldons在Leopardi整个工作背景下以及与他的同时代人和继任者的关系中提出的主要结构、主题和关键问题。编辑工作，超过翻译本身，将适应，扩展和修改现有的学术，为说英语的读者提供必要的支持，可能是第一次来到文本，并将Leopardi的工作放在一个更广泛的欧洲角度，这有时逃避纯粹的意大利阅读的Zibalone。此外，它还将强调利奥帕迪作品的现代性，无论是在作品的完全原创结构上，还是在其作者知道不可能是“系统的”的哲学体系的构建上。该版本将于2011年或2012年出版，两个出版前座谈会将讨论具体的研究主题，论文将在2009-11年期间分别出版。